Visual Image Analysis of Iron Man

            Hello my fellow viewers! Welcome back to our blog, “ What Makes a Super Hero?” This week ill be focusing on a picture of Iron Man, and interpret what it is communicating to us. Iron Man in this picture illustrates to us that he is fighting crime to safe us all from evildoers. You can see that the city is falling apart towers collapsing diagonally, asteroids hitting the city, and only one super hero trying to safe the day standing tall. In the book, “ How Pictures Work,” by Molly Bang emphasizes in a particular section of her book (Pg. 62) that when an object, person, or thing is the main attraction of the picture you analyze the figure in the picture first and then you move your eyes elsewhere around the figure. When Bang said, “ Our emotional response depends on the context, but the fact remains that it is difficult to take our eyes from the center and move them around the page,” it helps us comprehend the promotion of Iron Man and his daily job as a super hero. Other then iron man what automatically catch’s my eyes are the bright lights that he has in his chest, and in the palm of his hand. Iron man being the center of attention in this photo it makes us focus on him and everything else after. The color of the sky that turquoise looking with bright yellow in the bottom left corner of the picture makes me assume that the world is in a need of help. The background where Iron Man is standing makes us the audience assume that the community was in a place of instability. The dark colors of the pictures seems like there isn't any hope until Iron Man plays his role.  Iron man looks like he is determined to do whatever it takes to destroy the evildoers that are trying to harm the lives of innocent civilians. The purpose of this picture is to establish a  message to the immortal people that there is someone that will stand along the side of justice.